--- title: An elderly neighbour who lives alone may fall and need help, so tell… — Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling · tree and pragmatics description: An elderly neighbour who lives alone may fall and need help, so tell a grown-up if you have not seen them for a while. Who acts: elderly neighbour, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elderly neighbour, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.lesson:7 # text = An elderly neighbour who lives alone may fall and need help, so tell a grown-up if you have not seen them for a while. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 elderly elderly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 alone alone ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | a elderly neighbour | | | | | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fall** | may | a elderly neighbour | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **need** | infinitive | a elderly neighbour *not said here* | help | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | a grown up | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient | | 5 | **not** **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | you | things *= thing* | | | while | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.lesson:7`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Neighbours, deliveries, heating and co…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/6/) - next →: [Neighbours, deliveries, heating and co…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/)